Editors, Journalists, Publishers

Jeanine McMullen was a BBC producer in London when, some ten years ago, she went to Wales on assignment. There she fell in love--with Wales, its people, and most of all with the farm that, on an impulse, she decided to buy. In this delightful volume she...

The story of eight years in the brief life of Journal Kyaw U Chit Maung, a courageous Burmese journalist and editor. His political analyses helped guide the nation during a turbulent era marked by internal struggles to establish a democracy independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039148789Author Craig ColbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

From the bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape and Turn Around Bright Eyes, "a funny, insightful look at the sublime torture of adolescence."-Entertainment Weekly The 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and...

In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general,...

Twenty years after his last drink, Peter Hamill looks back on his early life. Growing up during the depression and World War II, he learnt that drinking was an essential part of being a man. Only later did he discover its ability to destroy the important...

On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own-he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569249550Author Simone de BeauvoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Marlowe & CoPublisher Marlowe & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439141144Author Edna BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 132mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980561Author Jeff HimmelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063210196Author April RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Amistad PressPublisher Amistad PressWeight(grams) 152g

His keen grasp of human nature and a unique style of verse made Ogden Nash, in the mid-twentieth century, the most widely read and frequently quoted poet of his time. For years, readers have longed for a biography to match Nash's charm, wit, and good...

William Randolph Hearst was a figure of Shakespearean proportions, a man of huge ambition, inflexible will, and inexhaustible energy. He revolutionized the newspaper industry in America, becoming the most powerful media mogul the world had ever seen, and...

As editor of The Economist, Walter Bagehot offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179712Author Grant LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 16mm

Hailed everywhere as a brilliant biography, GONZO is a startling portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, the genius who spent a lifetime channeling his energy and insight into such landmark works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas--and revolutionized the art of...

From one of America's leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. "Dispatches from the Edge of the World" is a...

Foreword by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center A real-life adventure story told by a New York Times bestselling author and war correspondent who reveals how he became a hostage, an arms dealer, and an Israeli spy.And the Rest...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Lewis M. Simons's recollects his 50 years as a foreign correspondent, one whose powerful stories contributed to transforming Asia from Vietnam War-era basket case to a global boomtown that today rivals the United States. ...

Arthur Mee (1875-1943), best remembered as the creator of The Children's Encyclopaedia, was more than a popular editor, journalist and travel writer; for a generation of young readers and their parents, the name Arthur Mee truly meant something. For many...

When black journalist Vincent “Roi” Ottley was assigned to cover the European theater in World War II, he provided a perspective shared by few other war correspondents. But what he really saw has taken more than sixty years to come to light. Already...

Intimate. Revealing. Candid. Published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Conversations with Cronkite gives readers a rare glimpse into the life and times of Walter Cronkite in his own words. The book contains selections from interviews...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767930628Author James WolcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Edmund Curll was a notorious figure among the publishers of the early eighteenth century: for his boldness, his lack of scruple, his publication of work without author's consent, and his taste for erotic and scandalous publications. He was in legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648118381Author Thalif DeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Grigson Consulting Pty LtdPublisher Grigson Consulting Pty LtdWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471477532Author Bob EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

In 1964, at age 22, Len Downie joined the Washington Post as an intern. He became a pioneering investigative reporter, news editor, foreign correspondent, and managing editor, before succeeding the legendary Ben Bradlee as executive editor.As Downie...

The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the failures of contemporary journalism. Belen Fernandez dissects the Friedman corpus with wit and journalistic savvy to expose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385335072Author Michael KordaFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Bantam USAPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

As seen on Fox and Friends From the front lines in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and other conflict zones to the base of the burning Twin Towers on 9/11 to the eye of countless hurricanes, Rick Leventhal chronicles some of the most amazing stories he's...

Before there was 'tourism' or 'leisure time;' before souvenir ashtrays became 'camp' and 'kitsch;' before Goofy Golf became an 'attraction' and today's colossal theme parks could even be imagined, there was 'Beautiful Lake of the Ozarks -- Family...

In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside - and closely observing - the media and cultural elite of Putin's Russia. After accepting a surprise offer to become the editor in...

At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she'd lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956368638Author Geoffrey GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel BarkerWeight(grams) 371g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743284769Author James TobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm...

At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forcade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Weathering...

INSTANT #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into his life and career, from his early broadcasting days in the remote northern Manitoba community of Churchill to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400068470Author Jeff HimmelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world in which to be a reporter, with at least...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780071499118Author Christopher RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint McGraw-Hill EducationPublisher McGraw-Hill EducationWeight(grams) 431g